initialize
Example Sentences
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“Seasonal forecasts initialized in November seem to have some skill at least through January,” wrote Butler in an email.
From Seattle Times
“What’s exciting about taking over the program is you get to initialize the culture and what that’s going to look like.”
From Washington Post
“Typically, the data that is automatically transmitted first is events data that communicates to Facebook that the Facebook SDK has been initialized by transmitting data such as ‘App installed’ and ‘SDK Initialized’,” said Privacy International.
From Fox News
“Free trade is the way of the future,” Mr. Bush announced in San Antonio at an initializing ceremony for Nafta in 1992.
Interestingly enough, one of the predictions of the past few years is that climate change expands the region over which storms will be initialized.
From Nature
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.